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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

— Walter Lippmann

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

— Moliere

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

— Jeff Bridges

Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.

— Gary Gygax

Pretend and real are all real to a psychopath.

— Lorraine Toussaint

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

— Horace

Acting isn't necessarily pretending. It's storytelling. It's giving someone your perspective on something.

— Crystal Bowersox

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Pretending is the basis of civilised society, and it is sometimes necessary for all of us. Without it we are nothing more than a pack of snarling dogs.

— Jeff Lindsay

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

— Jon Krakauer

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.

— Jacques Derrida

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